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Saransh Saini

“Software Engineer at Google DeepMind”

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Joined Cognition
Jul 2025
How they joined
With Windsurf
Before Windsurf
Juicebox (YC S22)Software Engineer
Now
Google DeepMind
Overlapped before Cognition
Sources1linkedin.com2linkedin.com3linkedin.com4techcrunch.com

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Details
LocationSan Francisco Bay Area
Company sitedeepmind.google
UniversityUniversity of California, Berkeley
ElasticsearchApache SparkRust (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)React.js
Notes
  • Moved from Windsurf to Google DeepMind as a Software Engineer in Oct 2025.Oct 2025
  • Joined Codeium (later rebranded Windsurf) as a Software Engineer in Aug 2024 and stayed through Oct 2025, spanning the July 2025 split in which Google DeepMind hired Windsurf's CEO and research leaders and Cognition acquired the remaining company, product and team; he therefore worked roughly three months as a Windsurf engineer under Cognition ownership.Aug 2024
  • Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf (the agentic IDE), including its IP, product, trademark, brand and remaining team, days after Google's ~$2.4B license-and-hire deal for CEO Varun Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen.Jul 14, 2025
  • GitHub account saranshsaini (created Jun 2020, 27 public repos) has a 'codeium.nvim-setup' repo (Nov 2024, 'A minimal Lazy setup to get codeium.nvim running') and a 'vsix-test' repo (Dec 2024).Nov 2024
  • Was a founding software engineer at Juicebox (YC S22) Jan-Jul 2024, building PeopleGPT, the AI people-search product created by co-founders David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta.Jan 2024
  • Public headline says "Software Engineer at Google DeepMind".
  • Amazon Software Development Intern (Jun-Aug 2023, Seattle) on the Amazon Fashion product recommendations team, working with Spark.Jun 2023
  • Built RustyVault, a terminal password vault in Rust, with its own Homebrew tap (homebrew-rustyvault), in Dec 2022-Jan 2023.Dec 2022
  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Software Engineer Intern (Jan-May 2022), working on an internal version control system and modernizing out-of-date applications.Jan 2022
  • Machine Learning Engineer at UC Berkeley's Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (Sep-Dec 2021), modeling vocalization patterns of the Egyptian fruit bat.Sep 2021
  • Two stints at Quiver Quantitative (Oct-Dec 2020 and Jan-May 2023) adding alternative financial datasets and building early versions of its data pipeline.Oct 2020
  • Listed as a developer of IEEE Berkeley's 'sketchy', an Among-Us-style multiplayer drawing game, with teammates Allison Jung, Arthur Deng, Jessie Hong, Isabella Borkovic, Barnett Yang, Roy Huang, Arda Demirci and Vivian Hsu (advisors Wilson Nguyen, John Lee, Maanuj Vora).2020

People they worked with before

Aakash MahalingamCodeium (Windsurf)Brian SmitchesCodeium (Windsurf)Marcel SchwagerCodeium (Windsurf)Numair BaseerCodeium (Windsurf)Chris DiazCodeium (Windsurf)Gina WangCodeium (Windsurf)Graham MorenoCodeium (Windsurf)Hannah Miller-JonesCodeium (Windsurf)Jacob AddingtonCodeium (Windsurf)Jeff WangCodeium (Windsurf)Jia WuCodeium (Windsurf)Mark JabbourCodeium (Windsurf)

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